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Two young children are dead and their mother suffered major injuries after two family dogs attacked a baby and toddler outside their West Tennessee home.Kirstie Bennard, 30, suffered critical injuries when she tried to intervene in the attack on her 5-month-old boy, Hollace Dean, and 2-year-old girl, Lilly Jane, family and police said.
"She put her body on top of Lilly’s to try and protect her after the attack started," Bennard's uncle by marriage, Jeff Gibson told USA TODAY on Saturday. "Both (dogs) started attacking her while she lay on Lilly."The two children were pronounced dead when officials arrived at the home, the sheriff's office reported.
It was not immediately known what provoked the mauling.The mauling, Gibson said, lasted about 10 minutes.The dogs – two pit bulls that belonged to the family – were euthanized at Memphis Animal Services Thursday.
The family owned the pets, Cheech and Mia, for more than eight years without a violent incident, Kelsey Canfield, the mother's best friend, told Fox News.
"I can promise you those children were her world, and if there was any inkling of danger, she would have never had those dogs near her kids," Canfield told the outlet. "Those children were everything to them, and they just have a really long journey ahead."
How do you feel about PittBull's? I posted this because my wife shared this story with me and my son was just recently participating in a "read to sheltered dogs" event where you could adopt a dog (I know brilliant).
I've heard the arguments that PittBull's get a bad wrap, but it seems time and time again they are the focal point of dogs who do these horrible acts. [Reply]
My wife and I built a front yard fence because the neighbor lets his pit roam free on Sundays.
“Nah he’s a good boy, wouldn’t harm anyone.”
While that’s been true enough, all it takes is once for our kids to be maimed for life! It became a big thing on the community page because the pit got in a fight with a German Shepherd a gal was taking on a walk. The owner blamed the Shepherd for “starting the fight”. I talked to him about concerns I have because our Australian Shepherd is leash aggressive toward unleashed dogs, and again, he said it was "our problem" ��
A police officer lives across the street. For whatever reason he won’t do anything about this. Animal Control hasn’t either. We live on a busy street though, so I don’t see how that dog lasts long with the amount of times I’ve seen it on the road. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ChiTown:
I had one charge my 4 year old when while I was working on a flower garden in my front yard. That dog started charging at my Son and got within 20 yards of him before I squared that beast in the jaw with my shovel. It ****ed the dog up enough that it laid on the ground for about 10 seconds whimpering and then scurried off. It's too bad I wasn't carrying. I would have happily put a bullet in it's head.
Originally Posted by Chiefspants:
My wife and I built a front yard fence because the neighbor lets his pit roam free on Sundays.
“Nah he’s a good boy, wouldn’t harm anyone.”
While that’s been true enough, all it takes is once for our kids to be maimed for life! It became a big thing on the community page because the pit got in a fight with a German Shepherd a gal was taking on a walk. The owner blamed the Shepherd for “starting the fight”.
A police officer lives across the street. For whatever reason he won’t do anything about this. Animal Control hasn’t either. We live on a busy street though, so I don’t see how that dog lasts long with the amount of times I’ve seen it on the road.
Sounds like it's time for you to accidentally run over that dog in your neighbor's front yard :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by ChiTown:
I had one charge my 4 year old when while I was working on a flower garden in my front yard. That dog started charging at my Son and got within 20 yards of him before I squared that beast in the jaw with my shovel. It ****ed the dog up enough that it laid on the ground for about 10 seconds whimpering and then scurried off. It's too bad I wasn't carrying. I would have happily put a bullet in it's head.
Originally Posted by AdolfOliverBush:
That would've made for a fantastic video.
That was circa 2002. Fortunately/unfortunately, that was well before cell phone video capability. I'm sure I looked like a full-blown psycho :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by Marcellus:
I love dogs and have always had them and have met some great Pitt Bulls. But I don’t think I would ever own one either.
But to be Frank the flat out meanest dogs I’ve seen and would never ever ever own are Chows.
I agree Chows are worthless very aggressive but they don't have the jaw crushing pressure of a PB.
out in the field as a land surveyor had many encounters with running loose Chows. They like to stalk and wait for the right moment to pounce. [Reply]
Originally Posted by srvy:
I agree Chows are worthless very aggressive but they don't have the jaw crushing pressure of a PB.
out in the field as a land surveyor had many encounters with running loose Chows. They like to stalk and wait for the right moment to pounce.
My grandparents how a Chow when i was a kid. You couldn't get near the damn thing because it was so schizo, but it would run off into the woods and try to fight coyotes and eat skunks. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Chief Ten Beers:
Pitbulls make up less than 6% of the dog population, yet are responsible for more than 80% of dog related human fatalities in the US
I don't give a damn what anyone says, I wouldn't trust one of those fucking dogs for one second
No one see the underlying racism in this post!? [Reply]
When I was a kid (high school), a huge black lab that belonged to a family that lived about half a mile away kept coming down to our house and attacking one of our dogs, which was about half it's size. Happened two or three times, and I told the kid, who was a couple of years younger, that if I saw his goddamn dog in my yard again I was going to shoot it. We lived in the country, and it was 40 years ago, so you could do shit like that. Anyway, one afternoon I get home from school and let the dogs out of the pen, and sure enough, a few minutes later I hear growling and barking outside, looked out the window and saw that fucker attacking Buck again. Channeling Patton from the air raid scene, I said, "all right, by God, that's enough!" grabbed the .357 and went outside. They were going around in circles and I was just waiting for a clean shot when the kid ran up screaming at me to not shoot his dog. He was able to corral it, and I told him that if I EVER saw it again near my house it was dead meat. Never did see it again. Rarely saw him after that as well. :-)
While I'm glad I didn't actually have to shoot it, I was fully prepared to do so. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
Do you think a big stick and the strongest dog spray on the market would suffice, or should I just shoot the bastard next time?
As much as I love dogs... shoot it. If you don't have a gun on you then find the heaviest item you can drop/swing and just start bashing the ever loving fuck out of it. Aim for the ribs and just start wailing away like you have 2 minutes to chop down a sequoia.
If the dog is already on your dog... Copper is gonna get as much of that spray as the attacking dog will. People say to shove your fingers in the attacking dog's butthole, and there is video showing it works, but that can just instead lead to you being mauled.
There is a big difference between Louie and Bacon (who are both foster puppies and are sweet boys protecting their babies *goats*) going out on the farm unsupervised vs an aggressive unsupervised pitty in the city. [Reply]
